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Analysis

Impacts and Recommendations

Because public cloud storage providers have advantages of scale, IT leaders should continue to view public cloud storage as a low-cost tier of off-site storage with distinct availability, performance and throughput characteristics

Because IT leaders in smaller organizations have limited excess storage capacity and staff, they should consider using public cloud providers to satisfy short-term peak capacity demands

Well-managed, in-house storage solutions nearly always have better availability, performance, throughput and security, compared with public cloud storage solutions, so IT managers must perform a risk/benefit analysis before moving application data to the cloud

30 March 2015

Original design manufacturers are disrupting the traditional data center vendor landscape by directly engaging with hyperscale customers. Gartner believes that this can evolve into a significant shift that DC OEMs need to plan for.